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NASA Wins Nanotechnology Award
Roland Piquepaille writes "NASA is rarely associated with nanotechnologies. But one of its researchers working at the NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center just received a Nanotech Briefs Nano 50 award for a manufacturing process for high-quality carbon nanotubes (CNTs). Because of its ability to produce bundles of CNTs without using a metal catalyst, this method is simpler, safer, and cheaper than current ones. The CNTs produced by this process are also purer and well suited for medical applications."
Quote:"NASA does waste money. IMO, the manned space program has been a complete waste of money since the last Moon shot. NASA as a whole, however, has some bright spots." You should have wrote almost a complete waste...I think the bright spots start to eclipse your observation in that I think the Space shuttle program was money also well spent, except for the salary for whoever approved the space shuttle launch of Challenger. Did you know that NASA stands for "need another seven astronauts?"